title: Survivorship analysis of total knee arthroplasty with the kinematic prosthesis in patients who have rheumatoid arthritis.
abstract: Eighty-eight primary total knee arthroplasty procedures in 61 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were performed using the Kinematic total knee prosthesis (Howmedica, Rutherford, NJ) with cement between 1980 and 1985. No patients were lost to follow-up evaluation. Thirty-one of 61 patients died during the study period. Survivorship for all patients by life-table method was estimated as 56% at 10 years. This was shorter than the expected survival rate of a sex- and age-matched control group. Fifty procedure outcomes in 34 patients (27 women, 7 men) who were followed for more than 10 years were available for clinical evaluation. Complications occurred in 11 cases; in 4 of these, revision surgery was required. With revision as the endpoint, the survival rate of the prostheses was estimated as 93% at 10 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Niigata University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hanyu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murasawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tojo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; D001843:Bone Cements; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular / Q000502:physiology*; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements